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Covert Russian cyber attacks against Western countries could cause civilian fatalities and potentially escalate into a real-world military confrontation, Latvia’s foreign minister has warned.

Edgars Rinkevics told the Telegraph that Russia may use a massive war games in September to probe Nato’s resilience to full-spectrum “hybrid” warfare including propaganda and cyber attacks that Moscow has previously used against Ukraine.

And he warned that deaths from deniable cyber attacks designed to test the “resilience and resolve” of the West by hitting key infrastructure like power grids could start a dangerous cycle of retaliation.